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Bill Wattenburg took up this case because over ten thousand small businesses have been closed or bankrupted by so-called environmental officials enforcing the underground tank laws. He believes there have been great abuses of these laws and that the Womacks have been attacked unmercifully, while government agencies and public officials have been allowed to ignore the laws, as is demonstrated in Amador County.
Compared to what other “favorable” citizens and public officials of Amador county have been allowed to do, it appears that Mr. Womack’s main crime was not being liked by some county bureaucrats who seized on a paperwork technicality to punish him—while they apparently allowed or blessed ongoing illegal activities at county facilities. Read this site for the history and attitude of the roving “environmental prosecutor” David Irey who was employed by the Amador DA to prosecute Womack. Read the “witch hunt” search warrant affidavits filed by a so-called CHP investigator pulled in to do the prosecutor#&8217;s handiwork. And then read what these so-called law enforcement people represented to the judges of the superior court in Amador county. There have been at least five different searches of Womack’s home, business property, his family members, and business associates, involving dozens of so-called “environmental police officers” belonging to “multi-agency task forces” (which are unknown to most elected public officials). One task force of ten agents appeared at Womack’s home in January 1999 with weapons drawn to conduct the second search (described elsewhere on this site).
Ironically, while CHP environmental investigator Russell Moore was leading a ten-hour raid on Womack’s home, and later digging up another property on rumors from a strange informant, the environmental health department in Grass Valley was reporting that gasoline was spilling in the river from underground tanks located at the local CHP office—tanks which had not been removed by the Dec. 22, 1998 deadline. The CHP commissioner told Wattenburg on the air on Jan. 31, 1999, that the Grass Valley leak could be coming from somewhere else nearby. So Wattenburg asked him why the CHP’s own aggressive environmental investigators, such as Russell Moore, were too busy in Amador county to investigate potential environmental spills from CHP offices around the state.
CHP commissioner Helmick told Bill Wattenburg on KGO Radio that he, Helmick, had no knowledge of any other underground tank problems at any other CHP offices. The following Wednesday, the CHP headquarters building in Sacramento had to be evacuated because of a diesel spill into the basement. No one knows at this time whether this spill came from an underground tank, and if so, whether this tank was in compliance with the laws that the CHP is enforcing on private individuals.
If this tank was not in compliance, then it was illegal to be putting fuel in it for any reason—while CHP “investigators” were charging citizens with felonies for doing the same. The heads of both the federal EPA and Cal/EPS loudly announced that no one, but no one, would be given waivers to continue using unapproved tanks after De. 22, 1998. Thousands of small businesses and services stations were closed down on Dec. 22, 1998.
According to Bill Wattenburg, “The belligerent bureaucratic idiots in Amador County who destroyed these EPA-approved tanks will pay out tens of thousands of dollars of county taxpayer money to replace the county’s tanks. They probably could have made a deal with Womack to buy his tanks at a bargain price and put their efforts into solving the county’s problems instead of trying to punish someone else for nothing. Of course, now that we know who started this action against Womack, it is obvious why they didn’t do this. They are too stupid to think of anything good for the county that pays them. It appears that the same county administrators were violating the tank laws all along—maybe with the full approval of some county supervisors. How could they be bothered with the county’s problems when they were probably committing felonies of their own? It is pretty clear why they needed a smokescreen like Womack to cover their own asses.”
After you read the public documents posted to this site, you will know why Bill Wattenburg, a long-time supporter of working police officers and the CHP in particular, now calls Amador county the “Gestapo Headquarters of America”. You will understand why he is now asking citizens everywhere to report any case of a public official or public agency that is not in compliance with the environmental and building code laws. Public officials also own or manage property and businesses. Why is it that many of them are allowed to ignore the laws that are strictly enforced on private citizens and businesses?
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This page was last modified on Monday, 11-Oct-2004 19:12:09 PDT.
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